At least stuff like Coulomb's law, how to calculate electric fields, and what voltage isMattChina wrote:How much of electrostatics do we needto know
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Does anyone have an idea of what types of electrical control devices we need to know about as explained in 3. c. vii.?
I was wondering if we might need to know about switches, relays, and solenoids too. Also, I was wondering what everyone is doing to study for the simple measurements, constructions, and configurations of a circuit and individual components as explained in 3. c. viii.
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On the first, I would study mainly switches and transistors, although anything and everything could be on the test (especially given that it's a big-binder event).BasuSiddha23 wrote:Does anyone have an idea of what types of electrical control devices we need to know about as explained in 3. c. vii.?
I was wondering if we might need to know about switches, relays, and solenoids too. Also, I was wondering what everyone is doing to study for the simple measurements, constructions, and configurations of a circuit and individual components as explained in 3. c. viii.
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Ths issue here is that transistors are both semiconductor devices and nonlinear... I'm somewhat confused about what is on the scope of this test.Jacobi wrote:On the first, I would study mainly switches and transistors, although anything and everything could be on the test (especially given that it's a big-binder event).BasuSiddha23 wrote:Does anyone have an idea of what types of electrical control devices we need to know about as explained in 3. c. vii.?
I was wondering if we might need to know about switches, relays, and solenoids too. Also, I was wondering what everyone is doing to study for the simple measurements, constructions, and configurations of a circuit and individual components as explained in 3. c. viii.
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Also, inductance isn't allowed, so I doubt there will be solenoids.
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Does anyone have any advice on how to design/run the practical portion? In particular, what tasks are common and how many is typical?
			
			
									
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I haven't been to any tournaments, but I would expect problems involving applications of Kirchhoff's laws to determine resistances/capacitances. In addition, designing a circuit on a breadboard to meet certain specifications, or troubleshooting a circuit could all be possibilities.antoine_ego wrote:Does anyone have any advice on how to design/run the practical portion? In particular, what tasks are common and how many is typical?
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At the one competition I have been to, we were asked to find resistance using band codes. I would expect things like how to use multi-meters in the future.Jacobi wrote:I haven't been to any tournaments, but I would expect problems involving applications of Kirchhoff's laws to determine resistances/capacitances. In addition, designing a circuit on a breadboard to meet certain specifications, or troubleshooting a circuit could all be possibilities.antoine_ego wrote:Does anyone have any advice on how to design/run the practical portion? In particular, what tasks are common and how many is typical?
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Can someone explain this to me? The answer is 2 amps but I have no idea how to get that answer. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FDlON7 ... sp=sharing
			
			
									
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I'm pretty new to this topic as well, 
for the practical, do we just need to know how to use a multimeter or is there more.. will we have to calculate stuff from the made circuit?
also, are there any old practice tests for division b. I can only find ones from division C
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						for the practical, do we just need to know how to use a multimeter or is there more.. will we have to calculate stuff from the made circuit?
also, are there any old practice tests for division b. I can only find ones from division C
thank you...
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Try looking for Shock Value tests. The practical portion is whatever the event supervisor makes of it.neerja.shah wrote:I'm pretty new to this topic as well,
for the practical, do we just need to know how to use a multimeter or is there more.. will we have to calculate stuff from the made circuit?
also, are there any old practice tests for division b. I can only find ones from division C
thank you...
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